we know that this week we saw both paul ryan and the senate democrats introduce their budgets. both likely dead on arrival. but at the same time, the president met with house republicans. i want to get your take on what john boehner said after that meeting. listen to this. >> okay. >> i thought that we had a very frank and candid exchange of ideas. and frankly, i think it was productive. we know however, that there are some very real differences between our two parties like issues, jobs, balancing the budget what we need to do to get our economy moving again. >> randy, do you think there is any common ground here? will we ever see a compromise between the two sides? >> whenever i hear the phrase frank and candid, i know that means we completely disagreed, but at least we had a discussion. and i think that's a positive. i think it's very positive that both sides have now put down markers for what they think is important. i agree with you that both of those are going to be dead on arrival, but that doesn't mean that that's not going to lead to now some sort of discussions, negoti